Calendar-pad fastener



S. E. BARTOLD CALENDAR PAD FASTENBR Filed July 24 1924 l u-l u Apnl 7, 1925 Apr. 7, 1925.

tli li fiifi STATES SAMUEL E. BABTQLD, OF CHIGAGQ: ILLINOIS.

CALENDAR-PAD FASTENER,

Application filed. July 24, 1924. Serial No. 728,033.

1 all 90. mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL E. BARTOLD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Calendar-Pad Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fasteners for calendar and memorandum pads and consists in the matters hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings- Fig. 1 is a perspective View of a wall calendar with pad applied by the fastener of my invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary rear view of the same;

Figs. and 1 are fragmentary vertical sectional views taken on line f-l of Fig. 2; Fig. 3 showing the fastener open and Fi l showing the fastener closed; and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the fastener.

The calendar has a back 1 preferably flat and made of cardboard, metal, or other ma terial. On its face, the back 1 may carry such advertising or other display as may be desired, and it is provic ed with an eyelet 2 at its upper edge for hanging the calendar up on a wall.

Leaves or sheets 3 in pad or pack form are held on the front face of the back 1 by a fastener lof my invention. This fastener is made from a single piece of relatively stout bendable wire or other material, and is bent to have the shape shown in Fig. 5. As there shown, said fastener has a substantially straight mid-portion 5 and oining end sections on the same side thereof and trans verse thereto. The end sections are bent to have loops 6, G at their outer ends and transverse intermediate portions 7, which join the loops to the mid-section 1 The loops 6 and sections '7 are transverse to each other, as shown, and provide the fastener with spaced members having parts to engage the board and calendar pad, respectively.

The fastener is applied to the back 1 from the rear by passing the outer ends of the loops 6 through spaced apertures 8, 8 in the back 1. After the loops are brought in front of the back with their arms a, 6 extending upward, as shown in Fig. 3, the sheets or leaves 8, in pad or pack form, may be readily applied thereto by inserting the loops through the apertures 9, 9 in the sheets. At this time, the end sections 7 7 slipping off the loops when they are turned up on the upper arms, as shown in Fig. 4:.

The fastener 4 is locked on the back 1 by having its mid-bar 5 engaged by 'a clip 10 carried by the back 1 on its rear side. This clip is so positioned that the mid-bar 5 must be flexed or sprung downward to engage under it, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2. This places the required tension on the fastener 4 to hold it tightly on the back and prevent the pad or pack 3 from rocking the fastener to open the loops 6.

The sheets 8 may be left blank on one side and be printed on the other with the days of the month, etc, so that as they are turned on the loops, a sheet either below or above, as the. case may be, will display the day of the month while another sheet may be used for notes or memoranda. The apertures 8 may be eyeleted, as shown.

With the fastener 'of my invention, the back 1 and fastener may be retained from year to year and new calendar pads be ap plied, instead of discarding the entire back and fastener, as now required with calendars using binding posts or bolts to secure the pads thereto. By my invention, the old pad if retained may be easily and quickly removed by releasing the mid-bar 5 from the clip 10 and turning the loops 6 into. position for taking off the pad. Thereupon a new pad may be applied. The fastener 4 being in one piece facilitates engaging the two spaced openings in the pad and back, and

enables the fastener and pad to be quickly and easily applied to each other as well as to the back. My fastener enables the back 1 to be used for a longer time, thus gaining more service out of the advertising thereon. In addition, the cost of furnishing calendars is lessened because only the pads need be furnished as the backs and fasteners are retained.

When used for a desk calendar and memorandum pad, the back 1 may be provided fied without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

1 claim as my invention 2 1, The combination with a back and a pad of calendar orother s reets therefor; of a one piecewire fastener bent to have mid-poi:-

tion and end portions transverse thereto wi'tlr the end portions bent to have transverse. parts,- said fastener being: applied vto thebael'ewith: certain of the parts of the end portions extending outward thro gh; th

back and. through holes in the pad to support the same; and with the mid-portion and the other parts of the end portions to" the rear of thebaolg. said last named. parts extendin along the b'aelifrom theholes through which mediate and mid portions the first parts extend; and means carried by the back and en gea'ble with said mid-portion for detachably locking the fastener to the" back. I a 1 2.- The combination with a back and a pad of calendar or other sheets therefor,- of a one-piece wire fastener bent to have a midportion and end portions transverse thereto, with the end portions b'entto' have loops at their outer I ends and tra nsx' e'rse intermediate portions joiningthe loops to said "mid-portion, said fastener being appliedto' the back with its loops in front of thesame and extending through the-back and through holes in the pad tosupport the latter-,said interh'e'ing to" the rear engaged therewith, with the intermediate portions ext/er ding along the back from: the holes therein of the b ack and de'tachab through which the loops extend.

3'. The combination with a back and a pad of calendar or other sheets therefor, of a one-piece wire fastener bent tohave a, midportion' and end portions transi'erse thereto, with the end portions bent to have loops at their outer ends and transverse intermediate portions'joininglthe'loops to said mid-portion, said fastener being applied to the back with its loops in front of the same and er;- tending through the back and through holes in the pad to support thelatter said-intermediate and mid-portionsbeing to the rear ofthe back, and a clip onthe back and engageable with said mid-portion on springing the same. under theclip for detachably looking the; fastener totheb'ack.

4. The combination with a back and a pad of-ealendar or other sheets therefor, of a onepieoe wire fastener bent to have a mid-portion and end portions transverse thereto with the-end portions bent to haveloops at their outer ends and transverse intern'zedia-te portions joining the loops to said Inid=portion, said fastener being applied to the back from the rear with its loops in front of the same and extent-ling; through the back and through holes in the pad to support thesai'ne, said intermediate and! mid-portionsbeing to the rear of the back, and a. clip on the back and ongageable with said. mid-portion on springmg the same under the clip for detachably loeking'the fastener to the back, said loops having- P111138 extending to the back over the d-j-aeent edges ofthe pad and ternin iating. at

said back toplace the fastener under tension w Len engaged with said clip.v

In testimony thatl claimthe foregoing as myini ention, I. aflixiny signature thii th day of- Jul 5 1 9243. I

SAMUEL" E. BARTOLDL 

